And without those rich people making them, they have nothing to buy. They dont just magically appear for people to buy. That is a misconception (or misdirection, rather) with how consumer action works. You cant take action if the rich dont let you in those situations.
The wallet is only as powerful as the people who run your economy, and generally less so.
Because if you dont have some kind of regulation it ends up being about market forces, which has even less to do with the will of the people and more to do with what makes a very few people rich.
The main issue with government intervention isnt that “government bad”, it’s that those same few rich people have more influence on it than the will of the people. In a large part because those people would rather cede that power to them rather than make any kind of rational decision.
Its good that green energy is benefiting from market forces right now… but it’s a fair weather friend, and as soon as something else is more likely to make some rich asshole more money, it will be tossed back in the junk heap to rot.
Buttery Males
*Half the voting population of America
“We invite you to pay tribute to us”
Alternate wording:
Attractive people in overalls
Unattractive people in overalls
Its not necessarily that they cant, more that they dont want to.
That’s a load-bearing hump.
I would not look at billboards around my state, then…
Because if there wasn’t a patriarchy they’d be able to just be people like everyone else.
I just want you to know that I’m downvoting you because the way you express your opinion is facile and simplistic, and honestly helps further the division you purport to critique. Not because I necessarily disagree with the general sentiment you believe you’re trying to convey.
One word answers to problems are easy, but they rarely accurate enough to actually help solve the issue and generally are used to push people to extreme opinions. It’s much less effort to just spout a catchphrase to push people towards your own personal goal rather than get into an actually beneficial discussion about the ins and outs of how life actually works and how to solve real world problems.
I mean, it’s been going on far longer than 20 years. It’s just been more directly relatable to how women’s appearances have been critiqued since ‘metrosexuality’ was a trend a couple decades ago.
Yes… a personality often built off the unhealthy relationship society has with women’s physical appearance. Sure, women can not care, but their lives will often unfortunately be much more difficult for it. Even accounting for the effort put into their appearance. These things are not so easily divorced in reality as they are in online discussions.
Honestly I don’t think it really spoils the joke, there’s only one line of text for the comic that gives the necessary context. Sure, you could try and infer a punchline from the title and picture alone, but it’s far easier to just read it. It’s really not even particularly funny, just satirical and topical.
We need a modern Brewster’s millions called Brewster’s Trillions…
In the same way that no one is a billionaire and very few people are multi-millionaires.
Daenerys was part of the wheel, she just wanted to be the one turning it.
Yeah, but with regulatory capture they outsourced air-distribution to private companies.
As rich and interesting as Skyrim? Turn over a rock and find any number of open world games that can match or exceed it.
As moddable as Skyrim? Now that’s a taller order…
It doesn’t need to be, no, but it will be, because we’re too busy pretending we can do something about it without organized action that is aided by an actually effective government producing actually effective regulation.